Soccer: Boca file enchantment with CAS over Libertadores remaining

Boca Juniors’ followers cheer as their staff heads on to Spain to play the Copa Libertadores remaining, in Buenos Aires, Argentina December four, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Boca Juniors filed an enchantment with the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday asking for the membership to be awarded the Copa Libertadores after violence by River Plate followers compelled the second leg of the ultimate to be postponed, membership sources have instructed Reuters.

Boca and River drew the primary leg 2-2 on Nov. 11 however the second leg at River’s Monumental stadium was postponed after Boca gamers had been harm when their coach was attacked by River followers because it approached the bottom.

The match is now scheduled to happen in Spain on Sunday at Actual Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium.

Boca’s transfer comes a day after the South American Soccer Confederation (CONMEBOL) rejected the same enchantment to be awarded the trophy.

“We had 10 days to lodge our enchantment with CAS however we did it the primary day,” the Boca official instructed Reuters, talking on situation of anonymity.

Boca based mostly their enchantment on the same state of affairs three years in the past once they had been kicked out of the Libertadores, South America’s high membership competitors, after their followers attacked River gamers with pepper spray at halftime in the course of the first leg of their final 16 showdown.

The membership now had a number of weeks through which to organize their case, a second official instructed Reuters, additionally on situation of anonymity.

The official stated the six-time Libertadores champions would proceed with the enchantment no matter what occurs in Sunday’s match in Madrid.